Teigan Cremona

Teigan Cremona is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at Charles Darwin University, affiliated with the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods. Their work focuses on conservation ecology, landscape genetics, and taxonomy, particularly regarding threatened species in northern Australian ecosystems.

Educational background includes a PhD on the northern quoll’s conservation ecology and trophic interactions. Research highlights include leading programs to mitigate cane toad impacts on quolls using taste aversion and discovering three new glider species through taxonomic revisions.

Key research interests involve understanding species responses to fire regimes, genomic diversity management, and biodiversity conservation in savanna ecosystems. Recent articles emphasize fire’s genetic impacts on small mammals, genomic conservation strategies, and denning behavior of northern quolls. Projects include island translocations of brush-tailed rabbit-rats and assessing island biodiversity havens.

• Grants & Projects: Led initiatives like 'Management for the conservation of the northern quoll at Weipa' and 'How safe are island havens for biodiversity?'
• Advising: Supervised students including J. C. Magro (PhD candidate) and G. J. Trewella.
• Labs/Teams: Active in collaborative networks focusing on northern Australia’s conservation genomics and biodiversity management.